"Havana Syndrome" | 60 Minutes Full Episodes

In 2016 and 17, 25 Americans, including CIA agents who worked at the U.S. Embassy in Cuba, suffered severe brain injuries that caused vision problems and memory loss, among other lingering symptoms. We have now learned that at least 15 US officials in China suffered unexplained brain trauma shortly afterward. The FBI is now investigating whether these Americans were attacked by a mysterious weapon that leaves no trace. For many months we have been gathering evidence of what appears to be a hostile plan by a foreign government to attack Americans serving abroad and their families. For me, it was November 2017, when I started feeling dizzy, I had more headaches, my wife also had headaches.

Mark Lindsay is a state department security officer who worked at the US consulate in Guano, China, says he and his wife began to suffer after hearing. strange sounds in your apartment, image holding a marble, then imagine if you had a 6 foot diameter metal funnel, the sound the marble would make as it spins and progressively gets faster as it descends towards the hole at the end , it's a A sound like I've never heard before was so subtle like I heard no, it was actually a little loud. I heard it about three or four times, always in the same place, always on my son's crib and always right before going to bed.

Lindsay wears prescription glasses because light sensitivity is one of her persistent symptoms. The symptoms got progressively worse with me. my headaches were getting worse the most concerning symptom was memory loss, especially short term memory loss. Mark Lindsay believes he was attacked because of his In his work, he uses top-secret equipment to analyze electronic threats to diplomatic missions. I have no doubt that this was an attack directed at my neighbor and me. His neighbor was Katherine Warner, who lived one floor up. She is a U.S. Department of Commerce trade official who promoted American Business from the guano consulate.

I woke up in the middle of the night and I could feel this sound in my head. um I was in intense pressure on both my temples at the same time, I heard this low humming sound and I was oscillating and I remember looking around to see where this sound was coming from because it was painful. When did you first notice that you weren't feeling well? On October 20, 2017 I started getting hives all over my body, really bad hives. I woke up. I had headaches every day. I started to feel tired. The simplest things made me very tired.

If these symptoms worsened over time. Yes, my symptoms would get so bad that I would throw up or wake up sniffling. beds, he says that even his dog was vomiting blood. Werner assumed her illness was related to China's toxic smog. She didn't know it at the time, but her symptoms were the same ones that American officials in Havana had suffered since 2016. The US embassy is there. but we closed as a result, we hadn't heard about what happened in Cuba, I mean, there were headlines on the news about hearing loss and um our diplomats were attacked, but we didn't know the details.

Katherine Werner got so sick that her mother traveled from us to live with her she spent almost 3 months with me during that time she also got very sick um and she and I share the same symptoms what kind of symptoms did your mother have headaches and um ringing in the ears um we also started to They both have difficulty remembering the words after reporting their experiences. Werner was medically evacuated to the US for treatment. US agencies are investigating, but Mark Lindy has a theory. This was a targeted attack on my apartment. It was a weapon, of course, it was a weapon and energy. weapon absolutely what kind of energy are we talking about?

I believe it is RF radio frequency energy in the microwave range. A clue supporting that theory was revealed by the National Security Agency in 2014. This NSA statement describes such a weapon as a high-powered microwave-powered weapon that may have the ability to weaken, intimidate, or kill a person. enemy over time without leaving evidence. The statement goes on to say that this weapon is designed to pay targets for microwave accommodation. The NSA revealed this in a workers' compensation case brought by former NSA employee Mike Beck, When you look back on your career, is there any incident that leads you to believe that it could be responsible for your Parkinson's disease?

Yes, in the 1990s, Beck and an NSA coworker were on an overseas mission, years later he says they developed Parkinson's disease at the same time in 1996, a colleague of mine, Chuckette and I, traveled to a hostile country and we worked there for about a week and I can't say what the identity of the hostile country is because it's still classified, yes, but it wasn't Cuba or China, you think you and Chuck KET acted with this microwave weapon. Yes, he had a pretty good understanding of the intelligence services of the hostile country, what they do to people, what they have done, what their motus operandi is.

Mike Beck says more. Recently came intelligence that he shared in a classified briefing with congressional investigators. Mike. He can't discuss any of these details because they are all classified, but in his opinion, the new information he briefed the House and Senate intelligence committee staff on. is somehow related to what happened in Cuba and China is relevant to the Cuba and China cases No one has officially confirmed that what Beck says happened to him is related to at least 40 Americans injured in China and Cuba, while Beck suffers from Parkinson's the recent Patients are being treated for the same type of symptoms that doctors would expect from a concussion, so follow my fingers.

Dr. Tina Shetty is Mark Lind's neurologist, so Mark initially came to me reporting symptoms of headache, memory loss, sleeping difficulties, emotionality and irritability, and what did he do? That surprised me a lot in the first days. He had no history of any trauma or blow to the head, but he reported a constellation of neurological symptoms that are characteristic of a mild traumatic brain injury without any history of associated head trauma. I noticed, but that's gotten better when exactly how his brains were injured is the subject of a study at the still slightly wobbly Brain Injury Repair Center at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Shetty is not part of that study and aligns her knees, but her patient Marks hers. Lindsay just puts her hands on her hips, assuming something happened that caused a functional brain injury of widespread brain networks because her symptoms reflect a multitude of brain networks. What Dr. Shetty describes reflects the findings published so far by the University of Pennsylvania. In the Pennsylvania study they have said that our symptoms are exactly what they saw in Cuba and that we have the

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set of findings that they had there. Robin and Britt Garfield are among 40 patients enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania study, as is Katherine Werner Robin.

Garfield is a trade official for the Department of Commerce. He was stationed with his wife and his two young children in Shanghai. I don't know when the sound started. What I do know is that it was for months. I was sitting next to Robin and something like that. I felt like I was hit from the left side and at first it felt like an electric shock and then it paralyzed me so I couldn't move or talk. She hit you so hard that you felt like you were in danger in the room. Yes, they say the children suffered blurred vision and loss of balance.

Her daughter was literally falling. Yes, she fell several times that day we went for a walk and she fell on her face. It was very abnormal. She never does that and then. The second time she missed it completely and simply fell to the side. Last spring, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo confirmed Katherine Werner's case and found that her brain injuries matched those of the Cuban victims. We had an incident in Guango and the medical indications of the U are very similar. and entirely consistent with medical indications that have taken place for Americans working in Cuba, but for reasons that are unclear, the State Department is raising questions about the other 14 cases from China, the State Department's medical office sent to Mark Lindsay this note that says we have reached the decision that your symptoms and findings do not correlate with the Havana cohort they tried to deny it they tried to cover it up they tried to minimize it why would the state department minimize this because it's China because we have a trade relationship so big with them what can? push around Cuba trade you know relations with China are minimal, that's a different Beast right, State Department doctors told Robin Garfield that his illness is due to a baseball injury 17 years ago, which he doesn't explain to his wife and children, it's a very complicated geopolitical relationship, uh, between the US and China, so for me I feel why this determination is being made, what it means for their profits today that the State Department is refuse to call this an attack.

It has a significant impact on our life, our finances, my career as Well, they probably haven't given me time for my rehabilitation. The fact that it is classified as a pre-existing injury means that I do not have access to paid leave. It also means that after a year my medical bills will not be covered. Currently, patients from China have the attention of at least one member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Jean Shaheen wrote to Secretary Pompeo the China group feels increasingly isolated and abandoned by the state department the state department rejected a interview but in a statement to 60 Minutes said that we will continue to provide our colleagues with the care they need regardless of their diagnosis or the location of their medical evacuation, a state department official told us that Cuba patients are victims of an attack , but the state has not made the same determination for patients from China. has asked the scientific nationality to help in medical research the FBI is also investigating intelligent sources told us that in addition to Cuba and China Russia is suspicious but if microwaves were used the technology is not rare, it could be more than one country is using it US intelligence is still debating what caused the injuries you were in danger and did not know exactly.

I didn't know and I'm afraid others may be in danger and don't know it. I don't know what the future will be like for me, but I would do everything in my power to prevent this from happening to anyone else who serves their country. Americans are not the only ones who have been attacked according to the Canadian government. 15 Canadians were injured. In Cuba, including diplomats and their families since 2016, U.S. government officials abroad and their families have reported sudden, unexplained brain injuries. IES with symptoms of vertigo, confusion and memory loss. The CIA, FBI and State Department are investigating a theory that some of these officials were injured by an incident.

Incidents have been reported in Europe, Asia and Latin America, but our reporting has found senior Homeland Security officials who say they were attacked in Washington and on the White House grounds by former officials. They are about to meet and are revealing their experiences for the first time. They were responsible for helping manage threats to National Security. I covered any and all emerging threats and Homeland Security incidents nationwide, so I covered everything from mass shootings to hurricanes and natural disasters. Olivia Troy was Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Advisor to Vice President Mike Pence. She had served in the Pentagon and was deployed to Iraq.

She served in the defense intelligence agency and the White House National Counterterrorism Center. She worked in the 19th-century Eisenhower Executive Office Building, next to the West Wing. In the summer of 2019, she was walking down these stairs to the White House when she felt like she had been physically hit, but it was like a stabbing sensation on the side of my head, it was like I remembered that it was on the right side of my head and I I felt like vertigo um I was unsteady um I felt nauseous um I was a little disoriented and I just remember thinking, okay, you have to do it, don't fall down the stairs like you have to find your ground again and study yourself, she studied herself. on a railing, but the piercing sensation continued as I passed through this entrance to the west wing, it was almost like I couldn't really process it, it was like a paralyzing panic attack.

I've never had that one, um, yeah. I never felt anything like that and then, you know, I thought to myself: I have a brain tumor out of nowhere. Is this what happened? Am I having a stroke? Olivia Troy was inside the security perimeter heading to her car.She fell. The steps pass The West did not report the

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because she did not want to believe that she was seriously ill and was worried what it would mean for her security clearance and her career. After this interview, she reported for the first time that there is a human aspect.

Shame and do you really want to admit that you are sick? Do you want to come forward and tell someone that, especially as a member of the intelligence community, I think I'm still processing it all and thinking about how many more? there are people like me who felt this, it seems there are several, a senior member of the National Security Council says he was beaten in November 2020 on the same West Wing steps that the former official whose incident was first reported asked us once in the New Yorker. I don't want to name him, but he described the incident to a close colleague, John Bolton, a former national security adviser.

They had disorientation and ringing in their ears and just a general inability to function. Bolton told us that the official said he couldn't speak or be clear that he was taken to an emergency room the former official sent us this note saying that more than a year later I am still recovering and suffering from headaches and other symptoms and has been diagnosed two other medical conditions believed to be a result of the attack. He is still an outpatient at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, which was a very debilitating attack and similar to what others have reported Others include Miles Taylor who also spoke for the first time Taylor was deputy chief of staff and then chief of staff of the The Trump administration's Department of Homeland Security's job is to oversee the department's roughly 250,000 men and women who carry out a range of missions, from aviation security to border security to cybersecurity.

Taylor told us he suffered the same symptoms. described by Olivia Troy. It was late one night in April 2018. I just became the department's deputy chief of staff and am dealing with some additional sensitive issues. at DHS and woke up in my apartment that night, a townhouse on Capitol Hill, to a really strange sound. The sound that woke up Miles Taylor is a common experience reported by dozens of affected Americans abroad. It was kind of a chirping sound somewhere between what you'd think was a cricket or some kind of digital sound. I didn't know what it was, but it was enough to wake me up.

What was really strange was that I went to the window, opened my window, looked out at the street and kept going. in mind Scott, it's probably 3:3:30 in the morning and I see a white van and the van's brake lights came on and it started and sped away, how long did it last? This entire episode only lasted about 7-10

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. How did you feel the next day off? uh free you're not ready to go to work uh you know I wanted to take the day off um you know sick so about 5 weeks later Taylor says it happened again the next day feeling off balance feeling just out of place I repeat those kind of similar symptoms to a concussion that you would get from taking a pretty bad hit in a sport and that incident caught my attention because I was actually getting ready to go to Israel on a congressional delegation that we were going to visit. meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, having some sensitive conversations with the Israelis about important cybersecurity issues and I remember it because I got on the plane at Andrew Air Force Base to take off and I thought I was already nauseous, I don't know if can make this flight both Miles Taylor and Olivia Troy became critical of the Trump Administration but told us that has nothing to do with what they see is a potential threat to national security Taylor says she became alarmed by that threat in 2018 after to hear about another case like yours in the Washington area.

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where he lived. Well, you say louder than you. You're talking about a cabinet-level secretary. This was an individual who did. he was roughly at the cabinet level in the Trump Administration who had had similar episodes which to me, as a Homeland Security professional, was a big flashing red light. I mean, to me, this said five red flags, we may have ongoing activity targeting US government officials here. In our country, who was he? I cannot say the individual, out of respect for his privacy.

I'll leave it at that, but someone with enough experience to say that this is more than just a coincidence, more than a coincidence, a pattern. Across two administrations, recent injuries to Among Us officials have been reported in Vienna, Austria, before a vice president's trip to Vietnam, and in India during a visit by the CIA director in 2019, during a visit by President Trump. to London, two members of John Bolton. National security personnel got sick in a hotel and that was on the floor where it was

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y occupied with White House staff and White House agencies. That seemed like pretty good evidence of a deliberate attack to me.

Do you think it was an attack? I don't think there is another hypothesis when you start to look at the number and the pattern that we have experienced. Bolton says that months later, one of the injured staff members in London said she felt overwhelmed again walking her dog in Washington. area we have found, she is not the only one who says that they were attacked abroad and then at home you must have thought that when you were home in America you were safe. I will tell you that when I landed from China, she was literally kissing me.

Where we met Robin Garfield in 2019 is a Department of Commerce official who told us that he, his wife, and his two children were repeatedly beaten in China. His daughter was literally falling. Yes, she fell several times that day. They were evacuated and registered in a state. department treatment program at the University of Pennsylvania recently, Garfield told us that his family was hit again during his year of treatment in Philadelphia, my wife catapulted out of bed and ran down the hall to check on the children without saying a word and she came back and told me that an extremely loud and painful sound had woken her up so they moved to a hotel where Garfield says it happened again and we woke up around 2:am.

I think with strange vibrations in our bodies and a sound that led Garfield to As I was checking on his children in another room, I saw an extremely creepy scene in which they were both rolling around in their beds, asleep, but they were both kicking and moving in different ways. pretty aggressive and I walked up to my daughter and put my head next to her and I heard a very distinct sound, uh, right there, like running water, so I picked her up, took her to my wife and came back and checked on my son, the same sound right next to his head, so I picked him up and put them on him.

My shoulder reached out to my wife and I said, "Let's get out of here." Garfield reported this to the FBI today. His family is sent abroad, where they continue to work to improve the balance of vision and memory. This is the most difficult aspect of this whole thing. The problem for me is the children who have been affected, both mine and many others. I personally know the parents of, I think, eight other children. I can tell you that I have personally seen balance problems in children who have never had that problem of finding their words by stuttering and then continuing with the challenges around Vision.

One of the things we have heard from some parents is that these manifest themselves in the classroom in real and tangible ways. Persistent neurological symptoms are not the only fight against them. Americans faced some of their early reports being dismissed as psychosomatic or illnesses related to infection or exposure to pesticides. Some were told they were suffering from the effects of old sports injuries. One theory was that the sound these victims heard during the incidents was actually a particular species of cicada it was tough it was tough at first it was a dark place to be in they pushed us aside and wanted us to disappear this man is among those who fought for recognition is one of the first cases of 2016 Americans assigned to the U.S.

Embassy in Cuba say they and their families were beaten frequently in their homes on the night he remembers the first time and that night all Dogs started barking in the neighborhood, which is very unusual for everyone. chorus and then this loud sound completely filled my room it felt like my head started to slowly crush we agreed not to use his name he's not allowed to say what federal agency he worked for and then the severe ear pain started so I compare it to if you put a swab too far and it bounces off your eardrum, imagine taking a sharp pencil and just pushing it in, it was very jarring and painful and i finally started passing out on the first one. public reports coming out of Cuba the affliction became known as Havana

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more than two dozen embassy officials reported injuries, but an initial FBI report speculated that it was all mass hysteria his brain injuries left him disabled he essentially retired at age 36 years old a weighted vest helps him maintain his balance his service dog helps him walk and his vision loss he is legally blind in one eye, correct, yes, what have the doctors told you?

It's not the eye, it's the wiring. What do you mean that the function of the eye itself is completely correct and appropriate? It's the sign. that comes out of the back of the eye towards the brain is where the problems are and no one really knows how to solve it who speaks tonight for the first time to put an end to the doubt you didn't want to do this interview no this is probably one of my worst nightmares because I didn't do my job because I want to be known. I did my job because I love my country and I was good at it.

God and I miss my job. I'm here because I'm tired of the gaslighting that keeps happening by the US government. I'm tired of this yo-yoing because I'm seeing new colleagues and friends that I've trained with and friends that I've known for years who are being sent. to these countries and going back to being a shell of what they were before, we need to help them and we need to stop this, but who is it that needs to be stopped when we return? We will ask the director of the CIA about his research and analyze the type of device capable of inflicting brain damage without leaving a trace.

Brain injuries suffered by American officials in Washington and abroad are the focus of intense investigation. After starting with about 1,000 possible cases, a CIA task force has focused on about two dozen. that cannot be explained the task force that includes the FBI is led by a CIA officer who helped find Osama Bin Laden the new CIA director William Burns told us one thing is already clear after the initial disbelief of that there can no longer be any doubt that these wounded Americans began my first week as director and what have become dozens and dozens of meetings with officials and affected family members and have found their stories to be powerful, compelling and, at times, heartbreaking. .

Bill Burns had heard those stories of CIA officers reporting injuries since 2016, but last fall, during an official visit to India, a member of his staff was injured at his hotel. Burns later personally accompanied that staff member to medical evaluations. It seems like the deli incident might have been intended to send him a message. Don't know. and like I said, I can't comment on individual cases here either, all I can tell you is that every story I heard from every officer I met who was affected by this just redoubles my commitment and determination on this issue. I have tremendous faith in our officers Bill Burns served under five presidents in the State Department and rose to the highest rank in the Foreign Service.

Early last spring he assumed leadership of the CIA, replacing President Biden. I tripled the number of full-time medical staff working on this issue. we simplified access to Walter Reed we established new partnerships with other world-class medical providers we increased the number of case managers and we are also making progress on the research side, just as progress on the research side occurred this month with a report on the nature of the brain. injury what we are hearing now is that Dr. David rman helped lead two government panels that investigated the injuries he is a professor of medicine at Stanford University what we found was that we thought there was clear evidence of an injury to the auditory system and vestibular of the brain all starting with the inner ear where humans perceive sound and feel balance and then translate those perceptions into electrical brain signals.

Dr. Ran's committees focused on a subset of patients whose experiences seemed inexplicable. This subset of cases had a very unusual so-called acute sensory event.experience that consisted of the abrupt appearance of intense pressure or vibration on the face or head, sometimes with the abrupt appearance of a sound like the one described by the officials who spoke with us and then this simply loud sound completely filled my room , this former official who We agreed not to name the sound we recorded at his home in Havana before playing it. We understand that sound does not cause the injury, it is a byproduct like the sound of a gun, which is not what does the damage.

Here is what he recorded of the wounded. The officials we spoke to said that the sound or feeling of pressure was coming from One Direction and they focused on one place, it was a continuous sound and, uh, one that only changed based on my location, they left it dissipated, they turned it back, they He repeated, that to us was something we had never heard of that we could not explain by known medical or environmental conditions and that deserved our special attention in an effort to understand what the plausible mechanism might be. Dr. Raan's committees concluded that it was most likely pulsed electromagnetic energy, in other words, a focused energy. microwave beam fired from a distance I think the best most plausible explanation is that this is a high-powered microwave weapon.

James Benford is a physicist and leading authority on microwaves. He was not part of the government studies, but he co-wrote the book on microwave transmission. These are portable microwave transmitters of the type that could damage brain tissues. There are many types and they can be any size from a suitcase to a large truck with a trailer and the larger the device, the greater the range. would be able to transmit its microwave energy through the wall of a truck the wall of a house something like that fans have windows microwaves go through glass go through brick go through practically everything the technology Benford told us has been studied for more than 50 years it has been widely developed in perhaps a dozen countries, the main countries being the United States, Russia and China.

The implications of such a mechanism suggest something different about the world that the loss of norms now involves. Human beings were seriously affected and for that same reason. We just need to understand this better The investigation is also trying to understand who could be behind this and their motive Microwaves can be a tool for spies Some devices are capable of collecting data remotely from phones and computers Whatever is causing it brain injuries a CIA interim report last month said there is no evidence of a massive global campaign to attack Americans last month's CIA interim report said we consider it unlikely that a foreign actor, including Russia, is carrying carried out a sustained worldwide campaign harming US personnel with a weapon or mechanism do you mean that no one was harmed by a hostile actor?

The intelligence community now assesses that there is no single cause that explains the more than a thousand incidents that have occurred. It has been reported from Savannah in 2016. We have also not been able to link a foreign state actor or an external device or mechanism to any of those cases. This is the most important intelligence agency in the world. Why is it so difficult to understand? It's very complicated. problem, you know, dealing with a whole range of incidents that have different kinds of explanations for them, plus it's a very emotionally charged topic. I understand this very clearly and that is what makes me even more determined to not only ensure people get the care they deserve, but also that we get to the bottom of this matter.

Former National Security Advisor John Bolton fears there is a threat to the highest levels of government, given the two national security officials who say they were overtaken on West Executive Avenue by The West Wing inside the gates of the White House, if If we were at war and an adversary could disable the president and his top advisors or commanders in the field, it could make us extraordinarily vulnerable. We don't know if that's the threat we face, but I'd rather focus on finding the answer now rather than discovering it later, when it may be too late. Former Homeland Security Chief of Staff Miles Taylor says he believes he was the target of two mysterious incidents at his Washington home that someone is trying to send us. a message that they can hit us and we can't hit them back.

That line crossing into the United States takes this in some ways. uh, just shy of the realm of war, the Homeland Security structure is in danger of being incapacitated during a time of crisis no, I don't think that's the case, but if people are being overrun on West Executive Avenue it's a indication that the White House and its grounds are no longer safe. No, I don't think that's the case. An indication of this is that we must take each of these reported incidents very seriously and as a government and this is a government-wide effort to invest the best resources we have into this.

What line is crossed if a hostile actor is doing this? in Washington DC, oh, that would be crossing a pretty deep line if in fact that were the case, if we could ever develop concrete evidence that that was the case, but we don't have evidence of that right now, you understand? how frustrating your comments must be to some of these people who think they know exactly what happened to them, what day and what time and what happened to their children and yet the CIA director says we can't connect the dots that We Still I don't know enough, we are not yet in a position where we can offer hard evidence that connects all those dots, but like I said, we are not done yet, we still have a lot of work to do and what I said directly to several of those officers I promise that I am absolutely committed to exhausting all alternatives so that we can give you the kind of answers that we owed you last summer in Geneva.

President Biden raised the issue with Russian President Putin, the Russians deny it. are involved the Secret Service declined to comment on White House security the iron gates on West Executive Avenue next to the West Wing were erected in 1951 after the attempted assassination of Harry Truman 70 years later there is evidence that the gates could have been pierced by an invisible threat 60 Minutes Overtime This week's story is one we've been working on for years and has to do with strange neurological symptoms that we, civil servants and their families have been suffering from abroad for about 2016, when the first cases were reported.

Between us diplomats and officials in Havana, Cuba, a loud sound completely filled my room. It felt like my head was slowly starting to squish and then severe ear pain started. I like it if you put a Q-tip too far and it bounces on your Well, imagine taking a sharp pencil and just poking it, that was very jarring and painful and I finally started to faint. One theory is that these officials have been hit with some type of microwave device, perhaps even a weapon that was designed. to incapacitate them, follow my fingers in our original 2019 report, we found that there were also people who believed they had been injured in China.

Mark Lindsay was an American official in Chinese guano. It's a sound he's never heard before. It was so subtle. like I heard no, it was actually something strong. I heard it about three or four times, always in the same place, always over my son's crib and always right before we went to bed, almost all of these diplomats and intelligence officers told us. that they were attacked in the houses that they lived in while they were abroad and therefore it involved their spouse, it involved their children and some of what they have told us about what happened to their children is particularly disturbing.

My daughter, who is very athletic, went running. she lost all sight on the right side, she couldn't see anything to the right of her and she asks me if she is going blind. These events happened not only to us officials but also to Canadian officials at the Canadian embassy in Havana, Cuba, we spoke with several of them who did not want to be identified because they were concerned about not knowing who or what had done this to them and They didn't want to be objective again. Something woke me up when it was 3:10. I looked. on the clock and I heard this noise and it was a loud metallic screech and eventually it went off, it was gone and as soon as it came down where I could hear it I thought I was going to throw up my daughter woke up in the middle of the night dripping blood um not one, not one two, if not three times from his nose from his nose there was a whole trail of blood between his bed and the actual bathroom, his hands were full, he went back to the bed it happened a second and a third time and I mean soaked in blood, one of The problems that Canadian and American officials had in 2016 and 2017, when this was just starting to happen, was that people in Washington and, in the Canadian case, Ottawa just weren't taking them seriously, my oldest son had massive nosebleeds that They came out of nowhere, my youngest son was fainting for no reason.

I contacted the embassy to arrange to fly them directly to Ottawa and they denied that request and said they could get a yes. There's some chance they could get a concussion in Canada and the same chance they could get a concussion in Cuba, so that was the first real kick in the gut for me that they weren't going to take care of us, my son. He was younger and therefore a little more oblivious to his symptoms and he told me, Mom, you mean it's not normal that when I walk into the Playard everything turns around, not everyone has that, you know, it's one thing if some government foreigner didn't like what I was working for a job, but to affect my entire house and affect my wife and children, that's just not right.

Robert Garfield is an official with the US Department of Commerce. He was stationed in China with his wife and two children, we were told that they were attacked in their homes with severe impact acts that caused them to be medically evacuated back to the United States. States and then were attacked again after returning to the United States you believe that someone in the room above was using some type of weapon to attack your family in the hotel room below I do and that they specifically attacked your children in their beds yes I do if these are real attacks the cases of children being injured are an indication of how insensitive this is about people who were being attacked in their residences in their homes abroad and there doesn't seem to be any concern Because of the indiscriminate nature of this, that spouses are being hurt, that young children are being hurt, this is the most difficult aspect of this whole thing for me, it's the children that I've been affected by both mine and others. that of many others.

I personally know the parents of, I think, eight other children. I can tell you that I have personally seen balance problems in children who have never had trouble finding words. stuttering uh and then ongoing challenges around Vision our children are the forgotten victims of Havana

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their illness is real and we don't want this to be what they are associated with for the rest of their lives